Southern California's
Startup Directory
Series B$84.3MRebuilding healthcare with AI at the core
Pre-Seed$250KBetter, faster tech vendor research
Series D$833.1MWe provide efficient in-space mobility that moves payloads from low Earth orbit to any destination. Our vehicles deliver rapid, reliable access, reducing costs and timelines to make space operations feasible for commercial, government, and scientific missions.
Series C$80.1MOutpace AI-driven attacks. Unify Digital Risk Protection, Human Risk Management, and Email Security to stop digital threats before they scale, empower your teams to lead your defense, and scale your SOC with agentic AI.
Artificial Intelligence
The region's largest single cluster by company count — AI and machine learning threaded through nearly every other industry here, from defense to biotech to entertainment.
Aerospace & Defense
Home to SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, and a new wave of hypersonics and space-infrastructure startups.
Entertainment & Gaming Tech
Hollywood's production infrastructure, live events, and a growing games and creator-tools scene.
Semiconductor Hardware
Qualcomm and Broadcom anchor a chip-design cluster spanning the region.
Medical Technology
A deep biotech research base and a growing bench of medical device and diagnostics startups.
B2B
Business software and services sold to other companies. The largest single category of startup across Southern California, spanning sales tools, vertical operating systems, and everything in between.
Industrials
Manufacturing, hardware, and physical-world operations. Overlaps heavily with the region's decades-old aerospace and defense manufacturing base, now extending into robotics and automated production.
Consumer
Products and apps built directly for individual consumers, drawing on Southern California's media and entertainment base.
Healthcare
Health tech, medical devices, and healthcare services, backed by a decades-old biotech research base and a deep bench of clinical and diagnostics startups.
Fintech
Financial technology: payments, banking, investing, and financial infrastructure.
Education
Education technology and learning platforms built across Southern California.
Real Estate & Construction
Property technology, construction tech, and real estate services.
Series A$7.5MTalino Fintech Foundry helps technology platforms and enterprises launch secure and compliant fintech products faster with MCP-ready and API-enabled infrastructure.
This entity ties to Delilah, the LA nightlife venue co-founded by John Terzian and Brian Toll of The h.wood Group, who are expanding the concept to New York as "Lady Delilah," a supper club opening in the Meatpacking District in fall 2026.
$7.5MDiscover Bundy Group’s expert investment banking and advisory services, helping business owners achieve growth, strategy, and successful transactions.
Series C$7.5MPointOne Family Office is a Manhattan Beach-based boutique multi-family office and SEC-registered investment adviser managing roughly $327M in assets.
Series A$7.5M
Seed$7.5M3D printed houses for sale — built from recycled plastic in as little as 1 day. See finished homes, ADUs & tiny home models, prices & how it works.